Filter



June 4, 1929. M. BASSION 1;7l'5,492

FILTER Filed Sept. 13, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 56 FIE- l FIE- E WITNESSES INVENTOR.

Morris Bassiop ATTORNEi June 4, 1929. BASSION 1,715,492

FILTER Filed Sept. 13, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 fie--5- I N VENT OR:

0 WM Mw rw fiqsswn Patented June 4,1929. V I I c c i j f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS nassrorr, or rHILAnELrnIa, PENNSYLVALl'IA;

Application filed September 13, 1928. Serial No. 305,723.

My invention relates to filters and more of the filter chamber and having a-screw 23 particularly to filters for the cooling systems fixed at its center upon which a thumb wheel of internal combustion engines. 24 is threaded and adapted to force an abut- The object of the invention is to provide ment against the bottom of the sediment 5 a filter which will arrest the movement of chamber; partition 17 being embedded in the foreign matter in circulating water and colgasket by the pressure exerted by the thumb lect it in a receptacle from which it may be wheel. I i easily removed. When an internal combustion engine is in The invention resides in a filter adapted to operation, Water flows from the bottom of the 10 be installed in the inlet or outlet of the water radiator into the water 'jacket and from the jacket of an internal combustion engine, for 'water jacket into the top of the radiator, as removing foreign matter from the water, and indicated by the dotted arrows in Figure 1. provided with a sediment chamber in which Foreign matter carried bythe Water, such as by the embodiment shown in the accompanyules in Figure 1, has its further progress aring drawings, in which l'cstcd by the strainer. If the foreign mat- Figure l is afragmentary side view of an ter is heavy, it falls intothe sediment chaminternal combustion engine having one of my ber of its own weight while, if lighter than.

filters installed in the outlet from its water Water, it is gradually washed downwardly 20 jacket, into the sediment chamber by the movement Figure 2 an enlarged vertical section of the water.

through the vfilter, taken on line 2-2 on Partition 17 preferably covers a little more Figure 1, 1 than one half of opening 18- and baflle 16 Figure?) a central vertical sectiontaken preferably curves against the direction of at right angles to the plane of Figure 2, as the current so that an eddy current is set up indicated by line 3-3 on that figure, and in the unclosed part of opening 18 which Figure 1 a sectional plan taken on line tends to precipitate finely divided matter. H on Figure'3. such as rust particles and the like. Material Referring to the drawings,the filter has a precipitated or trapped in the sediment cham- 30 filter chamber 5 provided with an inlet ,6 her cannot reenter the circulatory system due and an outlet 7 for connection into the conto the position of partition 17 which also preduit 8 through which water flows into the vents any circulation of water through the radiator 9-from the water jacket 10 of an insediment chamber. The sediment chamber ternal combustion engine 11, which is shown may be removed and emptied as occasion re- 35 for illustrative purposes only. and will not quires by loosening thumb wheel 24 and be described as my filter may be installed in swinging bail 22 to one side. the cooling system of almost anytype of in- While Ihave illustrated and described one ternal combustion engine. embodiment of my invention and shown it v The body part of the filter chamber is subinstalled in the outlet of an internal combus-f 4o stantially rectangular in cross-section and 'tion engine, it will be understood that modifihas a recess 12 formed in its top wall to recations may be made and the filter adapted ceive the upper end of a strainer 13 which to other situations without departing from has a rectangular frame 14 for supporting a the spirit thereof and, hence, I do not wish to such foreign matter is trapped, as illustrated the foreign matter indicated by dotted glob 70 foraminous panel 15 made of wire mesh or limit myself to the precise construction set 25 the like. Frame 14 has a baflle 16, depending forth but consider that I am at liberty to make from itslower end and preferably formed in-' such changes, alterations and applications as tegral therewith, and a partition 17 extending fairlycome within the scope of the appended from one side for closing a part of a preferclaims. n ably circular opening 18 formed in the bottom I claim I of the filter chamber and surrounded by a; 1. A filter including a filter chamber havshoulder 19. An annular gasket 20 abuts ing an opposed inletantl outlet; a sediment the underside of partition and that part chamber detachably connected with the lower of shoulder 19 not covere by partition 17. end of the filter chamber; a screen extending The rimlof a sediment cha ber 21 is forced from top to bottom of the filter chamber; a

against he gasket by a clamp consisting of partition. extending from the bottom of the a bail 22 swingably mounted in the lower end screen to the wall of the outlet side of the filter chamber, and a baflle extending from the lower end of the screen into the sediment chamber.

2. A filter including a filter chamber having an opposed inlet and outlet; a sediment chamber detachably connected With the lower end of the filter chamber; an arcuate screen extending from top to bottom of the filter chamber; a partition extending from the bottom of the screen to the Wall of the outlet side of the filter chamber, and a baffle extending from the lower end of the screen into the sediment chamber.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

MORRIS BASSION. 

